Adding the PATH variable on Mac OSX

This is another one of those blog entries where I want to blog for the sake of remembering tedious details…

The issue that I was facing was how to add a directory to the PATH environment variable on my Mac.

I wanted to add a path to MySQL install. So I’ll use that example. The following command in a Terminal window created my .bash_profile file. If the file already exists, it would have added to that file.